NEWSLETTER February 2012
NEWSLETTER February 2012 Contents Universal Declaration on Archives adopted by UNESCO………………………….2 APEnet Liaison group ……………………………………………………………………2 EURBICA activities……………………..................................................…4 Hungarian Presidency of the EU………………………….…………………………….5 Polish Presidency of the EU ………………………….………………………………11 UNESCO Conference of the Memory of the World Programme ………………...13 DLM Forum Triennial Conference in Brussels……………………………………..15 1 Universal Declaration on Archives adopted by UNESCO Declaration, adopted unanimously by Annual General Meeting in Oslo (on 17 September 2010) by the ICA delegates officially become one of the core pillars in ICA's advocacy policy. This year the Declaration was officially endorsed also by the UNESCO in the plenary session on 10 November 2011. The Universal Declaration on Archives is currently available in 20 languages on ICA web page (Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovenian, Spanish, Welsh) and was developed by ICA/SPA (Section of Professional Associations) on the model of the "Déclaration québécoise des Archives”.This is an important step in improving public understanding of archives, since it provides a splendid opportunity to raise still further awareness of archives among the general public and key decision-makers. The Declaration is a powerful succinct statement of the relevance of archives in modern society. It emphasizes the key role of archives in administrative transparency and democratic accountability, as well as the preservation of collective social memory. The Declaration repositions effective archives management as an essential function which underpins modern public administration, good practice in private business, and ready access to information by citizens. The first version of the Declaration was written by archivists in Québec in 2007.
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